Justice Resources

We encourage our social justice community to open their minds and hearts to the felt and lived experiences of others and to commit ourselves to listening in humility, accepting, learning, growing and acting with conviction. Take what you can from these sources, and go out to the world knowing the injustice that is happening, as well as what is being done to right the wrongs of these injustices and what you can do to make our society more just. We have gathered resources that have been impactful for us and we encourage you to share additional resources by emailing Campus Ministry.

Podcasts
- Commonweal - Regina Munch “Worship of a False God”
- Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
- What Matters, Black Lives Matter
Youtube Videos
- A Conversation on Race and Privilege with Angela Davis and Jane Elliott
- Implicit Bias -- how it effects us and how we push through, Tedx Talks
Articles
- "Juneteenth Was a Milepost, Not a Finish Line, Says Scholar" by Patrick Verel
- ”Catholic Scholars Confront Racism and Describe How Fellow Catholics Can Help” by Talor Ha
- ”The assumptions of white privilege and what we can do about it” by Bryan N. Massingale
- "Racial Microaggressions in Everyday Life," by D. W. Sue, C. M. Capodilupo, G. C. Torino, et al.
- ”We've Been Breaking: Attending to Racial Trauma During Resistance” by Evan Auguste
- ”There Is No Neutral': 'Nice White People' Can Still Be Complicit In A Racist Society” by Ari Shapiro
Books
- White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
- Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Essays by Angela Y. Davis
- Strength to Love by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Additional Resources
- Campaign Zero
- Harvard has an on-line test that identifies implicit bias.
- The Bronx COVID-19 Oral History Project
- Under Our Skin, Seattle Times
If you are a student experiencing food insecurity on campus, Campus Ministry may be able to help with the Swipe Out Hunger program. Designed for short term assistance, please email [email protected] with your FIDN and we will request that 10 meal swipes be placed on your id card. These swipes can be used at Fordham Dining at the Ram Cafe and Community Dining at LC and the Marketplace at RH.

If more assistance is needed, we can forward your information to Financial Aid or the Student Emergency Assistance Team for review.

Students with a meal plan can donate their guest meal swipes to the Swipe Out Hunger Fund.

Podcasts
- NPR - A Crisis Within a Crisis: Food Insecurity and COVID-19
Youtube Videos
- PBS News Hour - Mississippi Food Deserts Fuel Obesity Epidemic
Articles
- The Guardian - Food Apartheid: The Root of the Problem with America’s groceries
- NPR - Food Insecurity In The U.S. By The Numbers
- ABC News - More than a disease, COVID-19 exposes health risks of food insecurity
- Huff Post - The Bronx: Dying from Lack of Nutritious Foods
Books
- Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity. By Lester Brown.
- Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It. By Tom Philpott.
Additional Resources
- Plentiful, an effort to improve the efficiency and dignity at food pantries in NYC.
- How to Apply for SNAP benefits
- Semi-monthly fresh produce distribution:
  - Located at 189th Street and Belmont Avenue, Wednesdays at 10:45 AM
- POTS Bronx (718) 220-4892, x101
- Bronx Food and Sustainability Coalition
- Hunger and Food Insecurity Resources from Xavier University
- Bronx Impact
  - NYC guide to resources in your zip code including food, housing, transit, health, education resources and more.
Podcasts
- Ecojustice Radio, SoCal 350 Climate Action
Articles
- “Creating an Ethical Textile Economy Amid the Pandemic” by Meganne Liebsch
- “Coronavirus spotlights the link between clean water and health” by David Feldman
- “Climate Activists See ‘New Era’ After Three Major Oil and Gas Pipelines Defeats” by Marianne Lavelle
- “Why ‘I can’t breathe’ is resonating with environmental justice activists” by Denise Chow
Books
- Just Water: Theology, Ethics, and Fresh Water Crises by Christiana Zenner
- Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future by Mary Robinson
- As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Additional Resources
- Food Inc., directed by Robert Kenner
- Communities for a Better Environment
- Indigenous Environmental Network
Podcasts
- Immigration Stories with Nestor Gomez
- Mija Podcast, Studio Ochenta
- Beyond Borders
Youtube Videos
- U.S. Immigration | Let’s Talk | NPR
- Migration as a universal human right | Alvaro Huerta, Tedx Talks
Articles
- “Where Will Everyone Go?” by Abrahm Lustgarten
- “By the Numbers: Syrian Refugees Around the World” by Zoe Todd
- “Immigrants detained at Adelanto staged a peaceful protest. Guards in riot gear pepper-sprayed them” by Andrea Castillo
Books
- The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move by Sonia Shah
- Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move by Reece Jones
- Butterfly Boy by Rigoberto González
- The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Additional Resources
- Faces of DACA stories created by Ignatian Solidarity Network
- Human Flow, a film by Ai Weiwei
Podcasts
- Talk Poverty
- Our Town Reno
- From City to the World, CCNY
Youtube Videos
- Day in the life of the invisible homeless in America's most populated county, CBS News
- ON THE STREETS -- a feature documentary on homelessness in L.A., Los Angeles Times
- The rich, the poor and the trash | DW Documentary (inequality documentary), DW Documentary
Articles
- “More than half of the world’s poor are children” by Katharina Fenz and Kristofer Hamel
- “COVID Crisis Could Push 100 Million People into Extreme Poverty, New World Bank Study Says” by Jon Miltimore
- “Why Do People Become Homeless” by Jill Cowan and Marie Tae McDermott
Books
- Disrupting Homelessness: Alternative Christian Approaches by Laura Stivers
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
- The Working Poor by David K. Shipler
Additional Resources
- Signs of Humanity, by Willie Baronet and Tim Chumley
- We Are All Homeless
- Poverty Around the World, Compassion International
Podcasts
- Aftermath, The Trace
Youtube Videos
- What does gun violence in America look like?, The Economist
- The state of gun violence in the US, explained in 18 charts, Vox
- Six people affected by gun violence on the future of guns in America, CBS This Morning
Articles
- “School shootings harm students’ mental health, a podcast” by Paul Costello
- “Take Action Now: End Gun Violence” by NationAction
- “New research puts the 'good guy with a gun' idea to rest: Loose concealed-carry laws are linked to more firearm homicides” by Susie Neilson
- “American Arsenal: Our gun problem is getting worse” by Dominic Preziosi
Books
- Reducing gun violence in America: informing policy with evidence and analysis edited by Daniel W. Webster and Jon S. Vernick
- Do Guns Make Us Free? By Firmin DeBrabander
- Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge
Additional Resources
- Gun Violence: Facts and Statistics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
- Gun Violence Must Stop. Here's What We Can Do to Prevent More Deaths, Prevention Institution
Podcasts
- Incarceration, Inc. with Van Jones, CNN
- The Steep Road to Freedom, A Podcast from the ACLU of Ohio
Youtube Videos
- Mass Incarceration, Visualized, The Atlantic
- Let’s get to the root of racial justice, Tedx Talks
- Incarceration in America: The Inside Story, THNKR
- Mass Incarceration: Why Should Americans Care?, TEDx Talks
Articles
- “Teaching About Mass Incarceration: The Ongoing Narrative of Racial Oppression” by Rebecca Coven
- “Yale to Launch Center Focused on Health and Mass Incarceration” by Julie Parry
- “What Is Abolition, And Why Do We Need It?” by Reina Sultan and Micah Herskind
Books
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People’s Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time by James Kilgore
- Are Prisons Obsolete? By Angela Y. Davis
Additional Resources
- Netflix’s 13th Directed by Ava Duvernay
- The Sentencing Project, Black Lives Matter
- Mass Incarceration video, C-SPAN.org
- States of Incarceration
- Mass Incarceration, ACLU
Podcasts
- Queer American Podcast, Teaching Tolerance
- Making Gay History
- LGBTQ Bar NY Podcast
- The Deviant’s World
Youtube Videos
- The new frontier of LGBTQ civil rights, explained, VOX
- This Is What LGBT Life Is Like Around the World, TED
- What landmark Supreme Court ruling means for LGBTQ rights, PBS NewsHour
Articles
- “What the Struggle for Gay Rights Teaches Us about Bridging Differences” by Zaid Jilani
- “Supreme Court Rules for Gay and Transgender Rights in the Workplace” by Jess Bravin and Brent Kendall
- “'Whiplash' Of LGBTQ Protections And Rights, From Obama To Trump” by Selena Simmons-Duffin
- “Building Effective Corporate Engagement on LGBTQ Rights” by Debbie Haski-Leventhal and Daniel Korschun
Books
- The Book of Pride by Mason Funk
- Forcing the Spring: Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality by Jo Becker
- When We Rise: My Life in the Movement by Cleve Jones
- The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle by Lilian Faderman
Additional Resources
- LGBTQ Rights Milestones Fast Facts, CNN
- LGBT Rights, ACLU
Podcasts
- Straight Talk MD with Frank Sweeny
- Creating a NEW Healthcare
Youtube Videos
- US Healthcare System Explained, The Infographics Show
- The Problem with Healthcare in America, Buisness Insider
- The Structure & Cost of US Health Care: Crash Course Sociology #44, CrashCourse
Articles
- "Therapists Want to Provide Affordable Mental Health Care. Here's What's Stopping Them" by Renee Fabian
- "What's the Path to Equity in Health?" by Marcella Nunez-Smith
- "Ensuring Access to Quality Healthcare in Vulnerable Communities" by Bhatt, Jay DO, MPH, MPA; Bathija, Priya JD, MHSA
- "Covid-19 and the Need for Health Care Reform" by Jaime S. King JD, PhD
Books
- An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal
- The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World by Michael Marmot
- The Healing of America by T.R. Reid
- The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in Your Hands by Eric Topol
Additional Resources
- The Best Health Care? America & the World, PBS
- Health Care for All: A Framework for Moving to a Primary Care-Based Health Care System in the United States, AAFP
Podcasts
- Our Town Reno
- Outsiders, knkx
- Gimme Shelter: The California Housing Crisis Podcast, Manuela Tobias and Liam Dillon
YouTube Videos
- Day in the life of the invisible homeless in America's most populated county, CBS News
- ON THE STREETS -- a feature documentary on homelessness in L.A., Los Angeles Times
- Inside LA's Homelessness Epidemic | This New World, HuffPost
- Hidden Homeless – Day in the life of a homeless family, The Columbian
Articles
- "Solving the Housing Crisis" by Fran Quigley
- "Homeless in America" by German Lopez
- “Why Do People Become Homeless” by Jill Cowan and Marie Tae McDermott
- “Why Do We Say “Houselessness”? by Kimberly Hunt
- “The surprising holes in our knowledge of America’s homeless population” by Andrew Van Dam
- "Why New York Is Resorting to Tents to House Surge of Migrants" by Andy Newman
- "New York City to Involuntarily Remove Mentailly Ill People From Streets" by Andy Newman and Emma G. Fitzsimmons
- "A Snapshot of Homelessness Policies Around the U.S. and the World" by The New York Times
Books
- Disrupting Homelessness: Alternative Christian Approaches by Laura Stivers
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
- The Broken Ladder by Keith Payne
Additional Resources
- Advocacy Toolkit, Downtown Women’s Center (LA)
- We Are All Homeless